The report claims ‘iPhone 8’ will see an iPad-like dock in iOS 11, and the report seems to have answered questions developers have had regarding the motion controls they have discovered within iOS 11 beta.

Steve Stroughton-Smith shared on Twitter what the iPhone 8 homescreen could look like, with an iPad-style dock and edge gesture indicator, as per the mockup below created by @charavel:

Below is another mockup, showing the Health app. The top ‘notch’ cutout shows off left and right sides of the top display, what Bloomberg says internally are called ‘ears’ by Apple employees. The left ear displays the time, while on the right we see indicators such as antenna signal, Wi-Fi and battery. Again, at the very bottom, we see a line ‘indicator’, showing that’s where you can gesture up:

Stroughton-Smith goes on to say “So it really looks like these iOS 11 gestures from back in May (as found by @_inside) were destined for iPhone 8/D22 all along”. The concept video below shows what gestures could look like for iPhone 8 in iOS 11:

But how do you get to the home screen? I see multitasking options, which is great, but how do I return to the home screen? Pretty neat, but between this and the disappearance of Touch ID, it looks like Apple is going to be messing with a lot of core features this year.